Wow. Hey Mickey, once you're done with Jamison, can I keep him as a pet? I can teach him Warcraft and we could try take over Blizzard company. Later, I also wanna sell him on eBay, under Jim Butcher. Please?

Quote from: Mickey Finn on February 21, 2007, 09:52:51 PM

You just get to hang back and be the cool kids on the block.

Sweet.  *sits back and waves at the newbies*

Aha! VIP Privilages all the way. We get real hand-craved staffs instead of hockey sticks, free paint-by-numbers mini B-Bug and first-call on silver denarians (your choice of symbols). If you come to the ButcherCon!!! in a gloved left hand, you get discounts on a skull that throws the best DF quotes!

Btw, what about those who discovered the TV shows but haven't read the books yet?

Actually, that's not a bad idea. I have a set at home which I would lay a National Geographic atlas map on the floor and I place them according to the wars of the 19th century (no really, I'm alone and nerdy enough to do it). It helps me define the strategies used based on the weaponary at the time. I get most of my info from Wikipedia and other online stuff. Once I figured out how wars works back then, I'll move on to fighter jets and espionage. Must say that my fav would be the Crimean War of 1857 .

What, you haven't read White Night yet?  Man, did you fall for the whole "April" ruse hook, line, and sinker!  I guess I shouldn't tell you that Murphy dies...

Aww... c'mon. I haven't lost it so much that I'd sink all way to that. Just to be on the safe spot, I'm keeping track at my local Borders. Just wish the sample chapter was online already...

It is essentially the protagonist's story you're writing about and thus, he/she must have certain issues that the reader could relate to. Such as taking the bus or driving the car to work or take on the bad guys in a battlefield or sneak into the fortress. It's the choices the protagonist makes, rather than the best of his abilities (indeed maybe the lack of his abilities) which makes a charcter who/what we can love and cheer to.

Oh gods and freaks, I think I subconciously quoted JKRowling's Dumbledore of COS .

But still, the system works. The character grows, he loses his abilities and makes different choices. You question what if he still had the power and then which way would it force him/her to do the best thing or the right thing.

Indeed, I plan to make my character with super-potential and super-strong but her choices restricts her from acheiving top level. Not to mention getting crippled socially, physically, magically and emotionally (in that order). But remember, what makes a book is the characters. Plural. There are others that would support my protagonist along the way, those she had helped before. They wouldn't want her to give up no matter how much she just wants to lay down and disappear.

So it doesn't matter how tough/weak your protagonist is. Preferably, the tougher he is, the more people needed to bing him down. He could be a god with phenomenal cosmic power but it still comes down to either sacrifice his family/friends so their pure blood can heal the planet or rescue them to a temporary heaven and risk bleeding reality to the demons. It's the walk that goes with the talk .

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I guess I'll have to experience standard Dresden withdrawal until then. I'll be under the security blanket in my room if anybody ask.
:suck thumb and wimper...:

Interesting. Too bad it's too far away.

Will Bob be invited?

Kiriath just posted with her own image, and she only has 39 posts. 

No she didn't. Her avatar's in the Actors folder somewhere close to the top, called David Boreanaz. At least, it was there the last time I checked it.

Oh and yay, I got a personal avatar too .